Brett Harrington
I can’t feel
my hunger anymore—
those bony
hands tremor
before me
can’t clasp the other
in prayer
anymore.
This ruin
I am now:
crumbled stone
of an altar
verdant moss
consumes.
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Brett Harrington’s previous or forthcoming publications include Psaltery & Lyre, Burningword, Ligeia, Two Hawks Quarterly, The Shore, Third Coast, and elsewhere. He was a finalist for the 2012 Best of the Net award and lives in the Rogue Valley in southern Oregon.